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COVID-19 voter suppression: Trump admits GOP can’t win if many vote

April 2, 2020 By Chauncey K. Robinson

As uncertainty and fear take hold, it's easy to forget a national election—a true life-or-death vote—is fast approaching in November.

U.S. Communists demand Trump use Defense Production Act, say coronavirus exposes capitalism’s failings

April 2, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

The Communist Party USA is condemning the Trump administration’s bungled COVID-19 response and says the health crisis has quickly morphed into an economic and political one.

April 1—Rent’s due: Struggling to pay when there are no jobs

April 1, 2020 By Jeffrey Collins

For millions of Americans, Wednesday is the first time the landlord is knocking on the door since the coronavirus outbreak turned the economy upside down.

Farmworkers are “essential” but excluded, awaiting the virus

April 1, 2020 By David Bacon

In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation's 2.5 million agricultural laborers are waiting for the shoe to drop.

DeLauro: ‘Woman workers on frontlines’ of coronavirus battle still shorted in pay

April 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Low-paid workers are disproportionately women of color, and for them, they will need to work several more months to make what a white, non-Hispanic man earned last year.